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Old 04-12-07, 03:22 PM   #3
sqk7744
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Default You Know You're Having A Tough Day...

I knew that button in the Conning Tower next to the Map scrolls did something.


[JETTISON RUDDER]
Note: DO NOT PAINT and use only when VERY happy with direction of travel.

Thou...if the port/starboard props were moddled with seperate throttles, you might have a shot at it, and you could always rig a sail like CV 11 Intrepid did.

2 February 1944: Her work in the capture of the Marshall Islands was now finished. Intrepid headed for Truk, the tough Japanese base in the center of Micronesia.

17 February: Three fast carrier groups arrived undetected at daybreak.

17 February 1944: That night an aerial torpedo struck Intrepid's starboard quarter, 15 feet below her waterline, flooding several compartments and jamming her rudder hard to port. By running her port engines and stopping her starboard engines, Captain Sprague kept her on course.

17 February–18 February: The 3 carrier groups sank two Japanese destroyers and 200,000 tons of merchant shipping in 2 days of almost continuous attacks in Operation Hailstone. The carrier raid demonstrated Truk's vulnerability and thereby greatly curtailed its usefulness to the Japanese as a base.

19 February: Strong winds swung her back and forth and tended to weathercock her with her bow pointed toward Tokyo. Sprague later confessed: "Right then I wasn't interested in going in that direction." At this point the crew made a jury-rig sail of hatch covers and scrap canvas which swung Intrepid about and held her on course.

24 February 1944: Decorated by her crazy-quilt sail, Intrepid reached Pearl Harbor.
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